One practice.
Five companies.
One house.

It starts in 2005, on the walls of Lisbon. Alexandre Farto — Vhils, raised across the river in Seixal — begins carving instead of painting: removing plaster, brick and billboard layers to reveal the faces and memory beneath. The practice becomes known as urban archaeology, and the surfaces of a changing city become its material.

In 2010 the studio becomes operational, and in the same year Farto presents gallery owner Vera Cortês with the Underdogs project — a founding group show of ten Portuguese graffiti-rooted artists. By 2013 Underdogs has its own gallery in Marvila; by 2016 Festival Iminente stages its first edition in Oeiras, taking the culture the walls came from and giving it a stage.

By the end of the decade the pieces consolidate: Farto brings the team together in Lisbon as Cultural Affairs, repositioning the gallery and the festival inside one house. The house then keeps building at its own pace — Commotion at the Council of the European Union in 2021, the Eterno gallery opening its Marvila doors in May 2025, Clay taking the Portuguese tile to artists' hands from the Barreiro atelier.

Today the house is around fifty people in Lisbon, five companies and one shared production spine — with Festival Iminente turning ten in September 2026. The businesses exist to protect the practice, never to replace it.

• Museum & institutional commissions public art, exhibitions, loans
• Brand partnerships campaigns, editions, art programmes
• Public-art & city programmes
• Hotels, resorts & developments
• Collector & editions enquiries
• Press & media